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High water D/H ratio of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is consistent with a low-metallicity origin

Kenji Furuya, Martin Cordiner, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, 2026. arXiv.

Astrochemical models reproduce the water D/H most readily at <~0.5 Z_sun and ~1e4 cm^-3 densities.

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Furuya, K., Cordiner, M., & Bockelée-Morvan, D. (2026). High water D/H ratio of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is consistent with a low-metallicity origin. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12370
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